Zones can get dug out... I've noticed that with 11 wait time, i break even far more often.. my current system is if i got 0/12 i leave the zone, and if i got 2/24 i also leave the zone.


When digging its important to cut your losses early. When i hit wait 6 im going to cut that down to 0/10and 2/20.

"Oh it's normally pretty good to me even though im only at 11/40. Just the last 2 tries have sucked hard"


Spirit, have you been breaking even more often than not at lvl 2? Is lvl 3 the "break even overall" level, maybe?


Absolutely the last thing I should be getting into is choco digging, (no time..ack!) but it seems fun, and is a real change of pace. However, after a vicious crafting run in Alchemy, I'm down to about 150k and I'm worried that if I start choco digging now, I'll burn off my cash reserves before I can make it back by digging, leaving me without enough seed money to make it back it Alchemy either.


Also, anybody use a turbo controller (or just a turbo button finger) and go on /follow? (Is that a TOS violation?) I'm trying to figure out a way to level this while I'm watching TV or something else, but without breaking the TOS...


THanks!

Kinch

Follow breaks when you dig

Digging takes too much attention to do it while doing something else.


at 11/40 i almost ALWAYS break even + profit these days.. The trick is finding a ratio that your comfortable between "my skill is low" and This zone is dug way the heck out"

Any good zones to dig in at /wait 11?

Yuhtunga isn't as good as I thought it would be, at least until I can dig up the logs more consistently.

i bounce between yhorator and yuhtunga.. if both aren't doing that good ill either take a break for an hour or so, or go to a different zone..

So most of you go out to specific zones just to dig? I got down to wait 0 the other day, & I just dig when I'm normally travelling between the nations, I've never even dug in the Altepas yet ... but digging has made a lot less impatient to get to a lvl where I can teleport around, I can tell you that, lol.

I just got cooking near 50, and I've been thinking about starting another craft/money venture. I really don't have enough money to go with gardening yet, fishing bores the hell out of me and another crystal adventure isn't really appealing now, so it looks like digging it is.


What I want to know is this -- how much capital do you think I'll need. I mean, cooking probably cost me 100k, but I earned 90k back along the way while I leveled, so I only spent 10k or so. If I save up 40k or so to start (plus buy choco gear), do you think I can make it to a point where I break even before I go broke?


-DK

I'm not the best person to answer, by far, but I'll say that 40k isn't nearly enough. :/


You can start with that, but you'll go broke, I think, before you break even. If it takes about 80-100 stacks to gain the first level, then that righ there is nearly 100k gil. And if Spirit is to be believed (and, I believe he is!!), you're going to need at least 2-3 times that much to get to wait /11 and maybe break even.


That's my vaguely-informed input.


Kinch

You don't really need chocobo gear until later. I didn't buy it until I was at 0 dig time.


But I think you can start with 40k. Do it this way, only take out 5-10 stacks at a time every day or so. So you're slowly using that money, and hopefully getting some back from digging.